Kirk wasn't expecting to make a full-length episode about the music of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, but then he played the game. And here we are.
Picking up on 2022's deep-dive in the music of the Zelda series, this episode takes a deep dive into the score of the new game, covering the many ways it builds on the past and charts a new musical future.
SPOILERS: The first 40 minutes of the episode feature some discussion of the events of Tears of the Kingdom, but no major story spoilers. At around the 40-minute mark (there's an in-episode warning), Kirk gets into specifics of the story with full spoilers, including the game's ending.
Tears of the Kingdom score composed by: Manaka Kataoka, Maasa Miyoshi, Masato Ohashi, and Tsukasa Usui
Original Zelda themes composed by: Koji Kondo
ALSO DISCUSSED/FEATURED
- Twenty Thousand Hertz's excellent episodes on the sound and music of Zelda (Part 1, Part 2)
- "Careless Whisper" by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley from Make it Big, 1984
- Excerpts from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Ocarina of Time, The Wind Waker, Skyward Sword, and Link's Awakening
- Super Mario Bros. Theme by Koji Kondo from Super Mario Bros. Odyssey, 2017
OUTRO SOLOIST: Rob Rideout
Rob Rideout is a guitar teacher from Yorkshire who plays and writes for the Progressive Metal band Memnor. Memnor stream their time in the studio on fridays evenings at 20:00 GMT on Twitch. (From Rob: If you wanna hear what quintuplets in 21/16 sound like, then drop in.)
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